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"Mientkiewicz (I give up--I still don't know how to spell it, never will)" don't give up now - you've just got it right!

i'm thinking banana republic, maybe a container store, and a specialty running store. oh, and of course a starbucks and panera. the restaurant of course would be open year round, and the stadium would help to anchor a fancy new retail/commercial/entertainment district by bringing fans to the stores, and customers to the games. that sort of thing. and yeah, i'm lacking some of the more stadiumly details. they'll come along, of course!

i think i need to make a change to the stadium... and i really wish i brought the visio file home with me for the weekend... (yeah, i drew it to scale in microsoft visio - what of it!). in my concept sketch, i had the concourse and monster wall at more of an oblique angle, and the bleachers came in more towards the field. basically what i wanna have happen is balls hitthe wall and carom off into the bleachers for a homerun. with teh angling the way it is, they'd more likely just come off the wall roughly parallel to the back fence. and while that would be wicked to play, its just not interesting enough - or as much potential fun for the fans out there. i also need to throw some more thought into my stands, as i have no upper deck, and i don't think i have a good enough seating arrangement. i rushed it at the end after i was mostly happy with the outfield fences and pinball alley.

i call it... pinball alley. i love big walls, and i love corners wherein drives down the line can scoot along the outfield fence. its also got spacious gaps, to boot! critique away.

ew, yankee cooties! tho, i think of all yankees, i think of bernie as having the least yankee cooties of em all, tho i'm not sure of a good reason why. i'd have no problem with bernie coming here to fill out our outfield/bench on the super-cheap.

edgy, that's the whole point behind it.i wonder if the following each earn their own circles...tony fernandezbobby bonillavince colemanand i've always found myself hating mike maddux.

lets take a quick informal poll. how many of youze guyze employers would permit overt political protests and/or demonstrations during work hours, and on their property, particularly those which may cause their customers to take their business elsewhere? i'm guessing not many. democracy exists betweeen your front door and the reception desk at your office.

phooey. quite the bargain compared to BJ ryan, too!

anything other than free and the wife won't let me pay for it.

Mex17 wrote: 44 doubles 29 home runs 105 RBI's 41 stolen bases .307 batting average .389 on-base percentage These are all numbers that he has achieved in the past, albiet not all in the same season. Is it within him to finally put it ALL together?? if those are your expectations of beltran, then you are commiting the same folly as the mets did when they agreed to pay him 119 million dollars.

how cuteis that mike piazza? i'm sorry. i just typed that out loud, didnt i?

hey, i was in a mofo fantasy baseball league last year, stopped paying attention altogether between may and late september, and won the darned thing outright. the only time i payed attention was the last week of the final round of playoffs. i practically led most of the year. if its free, i'll be in. and pay more attention.

Nymr83 wrote: Bryan Hoch ran some mets rumormill site until greedy mlb shut him down, right? heh... something like that.

go nads!

wow. good move by the phils. the sox better be getting quite a chunk of change along with mr thome.

ok, well that link contradicts my quicklook... lets look at this (quickly again) year pre post diff 2005 0.922 1.070 0.148 2004* 0.746 1.033 0.287 2003 1.053 0.966 -0.087 2002 0.861 1.100 0.239 2001 0.924 0.976 0.052 2000 1.185 1.068 -0.117 1999 0.844 1.104 0.260 1998 1.004 0.952 -0.052 1997 0.909 0.848 -0.061 avg 0.939 1.013 0.074 avg* 0.963 1.011 0.048 - omitting 2004 due to injury well, heck. even if i get rid of 2004, forgiving his early season for injury, he's 40 points better post ASB. what the hell was i looking at earlier? musta just been the truly big years, i guess. so, thus, any real concern that he's a post ASB fader should be readily dismissed looking at the above. yippee, again.

="seawolf17"]="Valadius"]That's my point. And he always seems to have 100 RBI by the All-Star break and finishes with like 140. Perhaps that's a factor of the guys in front of him "shitting the bed" after the ASB, not him. Either way... when was the last time we had a 1B who drove in 140 runs and had a September OPS over 1.000? That would be never. in 2003, he had 97 RBI at the break, and 48 after. in 2000, he had 80 at the break, 57 after. those are the only two seasons he really came close to what he always seems to do... is it because he slumps late in the season? edit: the colored text is flat out wrong. wrong wrong wrong! i have discredited it myself, and i therefore no longer believe in it. i have no clue what i was thinking. as you were. well, it is fair to say that his second halves have typically been worse than his first halves. some years, that is not the case, but i would say that on average, since becoming a really good hitter, his OPS will drop by about 50 points post ASB. but why then do his RBI totals drop so? quite simply, its because there are about a month fewer games post ASB the pre ASB.

="heep"]My pont is you really have know way of knowing that. 30 homeruns, he hit over 30 last year alone between AA and ML. ithink the point is that while there is a chance, and i'll consider it fairly slight, that mike jacobs will hit 30 homers next year, there is a significantly greater likelihood that delgado will hit 30 homers next year. delgado is a tremendous offensive player. i expect that to continue, with some decline, granted. last season he was one of the ten best hitters in the league, and is not old enough that you would fear him falling off the proverbial cliff. jacobs, on the other hand, had a superb 100 at bats last season. he slugged friggin' .710! but do you really expect him to repeat that ths coming season? do you really expect him to continue to make such significant strides forward, or do you concede that his next season will likely see far more of a regression to the mean, given a full season's worth of at bats? you say you expect him to hit 30 homers next year. how many players have managed that feat in their first full season in the majors? is jacobs to be that good? i doubt it. delgado is the sure thing here. jacobs has a bit of potential, but as has been said elsewhere, that potential is unlikely to bring him to match what you can get of delgado now, and there's no waiting involved. and petit... well, truly rare is the pitcher who contributes meaningfully to a pennant chaser in his first go around, and there's a whole lot of scoutly disagreement as to his true ceiling. now, its hard to argue his performance, and the statistically minded side of me says to look to that as an indication of future performance, but there's just way too much subjective dissent for me to be a true believer. maybe his "unlikely" performance will bring him meaningfull success, but i'm more skeptical. while we had him, i remained hopeful, but that's all i had. hope. i typically bend against the TITTS side of these things, but in this case, i can hardly find fault. i really liked the player we gave up in jacobs, but in getting back delgado, i find a more than adequate salve.

Elster88 wrote: Not all of us mid-20 year olds are against the deal. i'm too old to dislike this trade. sigh.

="HappyRecap"]but this guy is now 33 going on 34 and Shea is not a hitters ballpark. As his numbers decline he'll start complaining and then we have a malcontent playing on the team who is making a ton of cash. florida 2003 Park Factor: Batting - 94/Pitching - 94 (over 100 favors batters) 2004 Park Factor: Batting - 95/Pitching - 95 (over 100 favors batters) 2005 Park Factor: Batting - 94/Pitching - 95 (over 100 favors batters) shea 2003 Park Factor: Batting - 99/Pitching - 99 (over 100 favors batters) 2004 Park Factor: Batting - 99/Pitching - 99 (over 100 favors batters) 2005 Park Factor: Batting - 99/Pitching - 99 (over 100 favors batters) i don't really think that pro player was helping boost his numbers all that much last year. (three year park factors provided to show non-flukiness of 2005 park factor) delgado was an MVP candidate last year, and is easily one of the top 10 hitters in the NL. our lineup is tremendously improved now as compared to yesterday. if you really want to poopoo this deal, then please first consider how much better a team we would have been last year with delgado in the fold, and project that glow forward onto this season.

according to Newsday, and reported on ESPN Radio this morning, the mets get carlos delgado and $7M for petit and jacobs. overall, i'm pretty pleased with the deal. i think it also could hasten a billy wagner signing, which, for 3yr / $30M, i'm not wholly dissasitfied.

is it fair to say that anybody who would vote for francis should have their voting rights immediately stripped?

bah! clearly the best way to evaluate a pitcher is by looking at the quality of his offense and bullpen.

well, if nobody else is going to start... edit: yay! somebody else did. i'm not a loser who has to respond to his own posts! woohoo! 1 A.J. Burnett - SP - StL 2 Kevin Millwood - SP - Atl 3 Jarrod Washburn - SP - Bal 4 Billy Wagner - RP - Phi 5 B.J. Ryan - RP - NYM 6 Trevor Hoffman - RP - NYY 7 Bengie Molina - C - LAA 8 Ramon Hernandez - C - NYM 9 Brad Ausmus - C - SDP 10 Paul Konerko - 1b - NYM 11 J.T. Snow - 1b - Bal 12 Kevin Millar - 1b - ChW 13 Mark Grudzielanek - 2b - Bos 14 Tony Graffanino - 2b - Atl 15 Bill Mueller - 3b - LAD 16 Jose Valentin - 3b - Was 17 Joe Randa - 3b - Was 18 Rafael Furcal - SS - NYM 19 Nomar Garciaparra - SS - LAD 20 Alex Gonzalez - SS - Ari 21 Johnny Damon - OF - NYY 22 Hideki Matsui - OF - NYY 23 Brian Giles - OF - StL 24 Carl Everett - DH - ChW 25 Ruben Sierra - DH - Bos 26 Erubiel Durazo - DH - Sea 27 Mike Piazza - DH - LAA 28 Bernie Williams - NYY 29 Sammy Sosa - Was 30 Raphael Palmiero - Ari

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